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Company of One
- Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
- Narrateur(s): Paul Jarvis
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Thinking in Systems
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- Auteur(s): Donella H. Meadows
- Narrateur(s): Tia Rider Sorensen
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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....
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Good book with Deleuzian undertones
- Écrit par Zac le 2020-10-24
Auteur(s): Donella H. Meadows
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Profit First
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- Auteur(s): Mike Michalowicz
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The author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.
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Easier to implement if not reading an audible book
- Écrit par Barb le 2020-01-16
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Blue Ocean Strategy
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In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
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Make the competition irrelevant
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Good Economics for Hard Times
- Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
- Auteur(s): Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
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In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.
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Good counterweight to Basic Economics
- Écrit par Quadratic le 2019-11-21
Auteur(s): Abhijit V. Banerjee, Autres
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Good to Great
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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DONT BUY THIS
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A Seat at the Table
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Agile, Lean, and DevOps approaches are radical game changers, providing a fundamentally different way to think about how IT fits into the enterprise, how IT leaders lead, and how IT can harness technology to accomplish the objectives of the enterprise. But honest and open conversations are not taking place between management and Agile delivery teams.
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A must read for the modern IT leaders
- Écrit par Ahmed Khalifa le 2018-03-07
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Good book with Deleuzian undertones
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Profit First
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The author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.
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Easier to implement if not reading an audible book
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Blue Ocean Strategy
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Good counterweight to Basic Economics
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Good to Great
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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DONT BUY THIS
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A Seat at the Table
- IT Leadership in the Age of Agility
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A must read for the modern IT leaders
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The Dhandho Investor
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In a straightforward and accessible manner, The Dhandho Investor lays out the powerful framework of value investing. Written with the intelligent individual investor in mind, this comprehensive guide distills the Dhandho capital allocation framework of the business-savvy Patels from India and presents how they can be applied successfully to the stock market. The Dhandho method expands on the groundbreaking principles of value investing expounded by Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, and Charlie Munger.
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Very good read!!!
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Choose Yourself!
- Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream
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The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for "security," everything we thought was "safe," no longer is. But more and more opportunities are rising out of the ashes of the broken system to generate real success. Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old.
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Entertaining, inspiring, but not new
- Écrit par Ami Sanyal le 2021-12-16
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Ishmael
- An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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One of the most beloved and best-selling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
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Does not disappoint
- Écrit par ROBIN RUDDOCK le 2020-05-07
Auteur(s): Daniel Quinn
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Inspired
- How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Second Edition
- Auteur(s): Marty Cagan
- Narrateur(s): Marty Cagan
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love.
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Good for beginners
- Écrit par Mr. P le 2021-09-27
Auteur(s): Marty Cagan
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The Big Leap
- Auteur(s): Gay Hendricks
- Narrateur(s): Gay Hendricks
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Most of us believe that we will finally feel satisfied and content with our lives when we get the good news we have been waiting for, find a healthy relationship, or achieve one of our personal goals. However, this rarely happens. Good fortune is often followed by negative emotions that overtake us and result in destructive behaviors.
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Great message... dull delivery
- Écrit par Diva Dot Calm le 2018-09-04
Auteur(s): Gay Hendricks
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The Myth of the Nice Girl
- Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate
- Auteur(s): Fran Hauser, Jodi Lipper
- Narrateur(s): Fran Hauser
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In The Myth of the Nice Girl, Fran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. If women are nice, they are seen as weak and ineffective, but if they are tough, they are labeled a bitch. Hauser proves that women don't have to sacrifice their values or hide their authentic personalities to be successful.
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A must-have for young professional women
- Écrit par CC le 2018-08-06
Auteur(s): Fran Hauser, Autres
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Scaling Up
- How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't, Rockefeller Habits 2.0
- Auteur(s): Verne Harnish
- Narrateur(s): Spencer Cannon
- Durée: 8 h et 49 min
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It's been over a decade since Verne Harnish's best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't is the first major revision of this business classic. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business.
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The best foundation you can give yourself
- Écrit par Matthew McQuinn le 2020-07-05
Auteur(s): Verne Harnish
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Three Simple Steps
- A Map to Success in Business and Life
- Auteur(s): Trevor Blake
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Dudley
- Durée: 7 h et 33 min
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How many self-help books are written by authors whose biggest success is selling self-help books? Three Simple Steps is different. Despite stock market crashes, dot-com busts, and the specter of recession, the author started a virtual company from home, using a few thousand dollars of his savings. A few years later, without ever hiring an employee or leaving his home office, he sold it for more than $100 million. As the economy slipped into another free fall, he did this again with a company in a different field. He accomplished this through no particular genius.
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Three Steps in One Fantastic Listen
- Écrit par Paul Malfara le 2018-09-14
Auteur(s): Trevor Blake
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The E-Myth Revisited
- Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
- Auteur(s): Michael E. Gerber
- Narrateur(s): Michael E. Gerber
- Durée: 8 h et 5 min
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In this audio edition of the totally revised underground best seller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business, from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed.
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Doesn't offer much
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-03-12
Auteur(s): Michael E. Gerber
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12 Months to $1 Million
- How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur
- Auteur(s): Ryan Daniel Moran
- Narrateur(s): Ryan Daniel Moran
- Durée: 7 h et 38 min
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By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.
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Keep scrolling, this ain't the book
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-09-23
Auteur(s): Ryan Daniel Moran
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Super Human
- The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even Live Forever
- Auteur(s): Dave Asprey
- Narrateur(s): Dave Asprey
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Dave Asprey suffered countless symptoms of aging as a young man, which sparked a life-long burning desire to grow younger with each birthday. For more than 20 years, he has been on a quest to find innovative, science-backed methods to upgrade human biology and redefine the limits of the mind, body, and spirit. The results speak for themselves. Now in his 40s, Dave is smarter, happier, and more fit and successful than ever before.
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Great introductory course into the world of human optimization!
- Écrit par Ian Gall le 2020-01-03
Auteur(s): Dave Asprey
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Sales Management. Simplified
- The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team
- Auteur(s): Mike Weinberg
- Narrateur(s): L. J. Ganser
- Durée: 6 h et 57 min
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Why do sales organizations fall short? Every day expert consultants like Mike Weinberg are called on by companies large and small to find the answer - and it's one that may surprise you. Typically the issue lies not with the sales team - but with how it is being led. Through their attitude and actions, senior executives and sales managers unknowingly undermine performance. In Sales Management. Simplified. Weinberg tells it straight, calling out the problems plaguing sales forces and the costly mistakes made by even the best-intentioned sales managers.
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Thank you so much for writing this book
- Écrit par Global3xchange le 2020-11-13
Auteur(s): Mike Weinberg
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What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better - and smarter - solution is simply to remain small? This book explains how to do just that.
Company of One is a refreshingly new approach centered on staying small and avoiding growth, for any size business. Not as a freelancer who only gets paid on a per piece basis, and not as an entrepreneurial start-up that wants to scale as soon as possible, but as a small business that is deliberately committed to staying that way. By staying small, one can have freedom to pursue more meaningful pleasures in life and avoid the headaches that result from dealing with employees, long meetings, or worrying about expansion. Company of One introduces this unique business strategy and explains how to make it work for you, including how to generate cash flow on an ongoing basis.
Paul Jarvis left the corporate world when he realized that working in a high-pressure, high profile world was not his idea of success. Instead, he now works for himself out of his home on a small, lush island off of Vancouver, and lives a much more rewarding and productive life. He no longer has to contend with an environment that constantly demands more productivity, more output, and more growth.
In Company of One, Jarvis explains how you can find the right pathway to do the same, including planning how to set up your shop, determining your desired revenues, dealing with unexpected crises, keeping your key clients happy, and of course, doing all of this on your own.
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- smaclell
- 2019-12-04
Start small, then choose your path
Good, but not world shattering. This is likely biased since I just finished the $100 startup.
Treat your customers right and give value whenever you can. Values and how to make a solid business of your choosing are the central tenants of the book. Don't expect a perfect playbook or series of steps. Instead have an open mind and be ready to think.
This book traces Paul's influences and path through business. I enjoyed his story and suggestions from his own experience. I liked the specific recommendations for Canadians. Included are many other stories reinforcing the points throughout the book to great effect.
He espouses having your small company embody your excentricity and unique values. His values and humility come through clearly. This isn't a book proclaiming how smart the author is but an invitation to forge your own path.
Although I was not blown away on my first listening, I do think I will listen again. The values shared go much deeper and are worth repeating.
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- Kevin Brennan
- 2019-01-26
Excellent
I’m a small business owner and struggle with the whether I should expand my staff to grow or look for ways to maintain my size but grow my revenue more slowly.
I’m glad to hear someone else say the measure of success isn’t size of your company/revenue but the happiness of yourself and staff.
4 stars for performance only because it felt a little stammering at times. I’m guessing it was the first time narrating.
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- Eric
- 2020-08-09
sustainability vs nonstop growth argument.
Some people talking smack about this book saying it was too repetitive etc. It reads like a chill blog post which is comfortable and nice. I'm also a Canadian who graduated from UofT so the author resonated with me. He brings up a lot of good points that helped me feel better about the stigma of running a small business. Uses examples like 90% of businesses that have survived past 100 years are in Japan and have less than 300 employees. Lots of real world examples, the average company on the SP500 only survives 15 years etc. It's pretty much a sustainability vs nonstop growth argument. If you're a freelancer or self employed person who feels crumby about being a company of one, he shows you how for a lot of us it's the most rational healthy option, and the rest is just hyped up media talk designed to brainwash you or please investors after an IPO. It's almost like the slow fashion theory of running your own business. This dude pretty much convinced me to keep my team as small as possible and only scale if I'm really reaping benefits and just chill and enjoy my life and business stability. I've been in larger businesses before that scaled too fast and guess what happened to them. Thanks Paul it was honestly a slick read.
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- Matt
- 2019-08-12
Excellent perspective that is too rarely shared
Questioning growth is one of the great skills of successful business people. Paul does an excellent job of inviting us to think about this perspective from many different angles, providing benefits for people in many different situations, including at larger and established companies.
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- C.B
- 2022-01-03
Content great, narrator not so much
Content was really good.. but I couldn’t get on with the narrator. Narrator has a very annoying quality to his voice and I found myself zoning out. Ended up buying the physical book instead. Wish I could have got my credit back after buying the physical book!
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- Jessie
- 2021-11-01
Not a fan
I like the idea of being a company of one but this book didn't resonate with me. Would be better if it was narrated by someone else.
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- MT
- 2021-09-15
Perfect for freelancers and consultants
This book has given me the enlightenment and alignment I needed to get unstuck in my business. Stories are well-told and very relatable.
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- Amy Walker
- 2021-01-20
A worthy read
Invaluable advice from a guy who has lived and breathed the experience of setting up a company without the rigmarole of detractions from the core agenda or values. Love it.
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- Global3xchange
- 2020-11-10
Thank you so much for this Book
Thank you for sharing these useful datum. Greatly appreciated and all the best with your company of ONE :)
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- Brody
- 2020-05-10
I enjoyed the book, its great for newbies
Perfect little book for people that need a Kickstart into starting their own business of 1. exactly what it says
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- Oliver Nielsen
- 2020-05-02
Starts out strong...
Company of One starts strong – but weakens as it progresses. And when he went down the "team this, teams that" path, I knew this book's title was the misleading (and typical) result of a book publisher (or editor) who insists on either a more appealing, better-selling title – or, added content that caters to a broader audience (i.e. teams).
The actual subtitle (premise) of the book is "Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business".
A better fitting subtitle for the actual book would have been: "Why Starting Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business".
The book isn't about staying small. It's about starting small. And there's a BIG difference.
In the beginning of the book (which is also the Audible preview), he mentions examples of being an author as a perfect example of a company of one. And that's why I purchased the book: to learn more about being successful as a SOLOpreneur – i.e. STAYING a "company of one".
With that said, the book is fair enough as a general business startup book. But so are many other books.
It's strange there are so few books that solely and extensively target SOLOpreneurship.
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- A M
- 2019-05-21
Dont bother
Really disappointed, refered via a podcast dont waste your time listening. all he discusses are other peoples lives using basic formulas. Its more like a history book then any new ideas
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- Ian Wagner
- 2019-07-25
Not all that fresh
This was disappointing, and came across as somewhat amateurish in style. I’m surprised it was rated so highly. The advice wasn’t bad per se, but it was far from original. The book lacked depth, was highly repetitive, and, while underpinned by good ideas, did not communicate them very well.
Additionally, the performance was pretty terrible. Apparently Audible is a self publishing shop now? The narration was full of odd pauses, strange inflections, and just didn’t flow well at all.
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- Mark
- 2019-05-14
Repetitive and predominantly common sense
This book could probably have been cut in half with no reduction in content. Contained mostly self-evident comments about good customer service driving high retention. Also found the usage of large, venture-backed businesses that have never been profitable as examples to be very odd given the thesis of the book. Overall would not recommend.
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- Mira Krishnan
- 2019-01-21
Captures my biz philosophy and gives me guideposts
I started my company of one three years ago. I reached viability quickly in the first year, had increased well beyond my highest salary in the second year, and continued double digit growth in the third, staying cashflow positive and profitable throughout as I expanded. I am at the phase where my business is and will remain viable. I can continue carefully growing, but I am ambivalent at best about adding employees, and I want to be more selective and continue tailoring to the work I find most engaging. I am also exploring the issue of moving from service delivery (all of my revenue is my own direct service and expertise) to developing monetizable associated products. My business represents my personality and beliefs, but I am also trying to figure out how to continue defining those and aligning the business to the beliefs. So this book is really perfectly timed for me. This book could have more details tailored to where I am at, but I think it's enough of an entre that I will check out Paul's podcast and community. I also recommended this book to a small circle of women entrepreneurs I'm in (almost all of whom are companies of one) for discussion and I can't wait to talk about it with them. The details for people just beginning are better, but of course I didn't have this book three years ago!
I think it might have been advisable for Paul to use a professional narrator but given the content and premise I also understand why he did it himself. There is some odd halting and there are awkward pauses, but at the same time it's his voice, and so it makes sense that it's his voice. I would have done the same, so I cannot blame him much.
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- Franck W.
- 2020-06-15
Could Have Been a Great Book!
The author makes a very compelling case for anyone to want to read the book. The main theory that you can do well (or better) by keeping your business small and manageable is very compelling. The introductory chapter lays the ground for a very interesting book. But it goes downhill from there. The book overall is very repetitive and should be much shorter. The author also confuses the audience by trying to appeal to everyone under the sun. He gives examples of individuals who have succeeded in bringing new ideas within large corporations. Calling them a company of one! He also said that technically large corporations are also "company of one". Well... which one is it?
It's not a book I would recommend. Read the author blog post instead and you will get basically what the book is telling you in 7 hours. I recommend Small Giants by Bo Burlingham or The million dollars, one-person business by Elaine Pofeldt. These two books tackle the same topic but much more effectively.
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- Lukosa
- 2019-03-07
not for entrepreneurs
feels like the author's editor forced him to make it applicable to people working for large companies. I rarely don't finish a book but this one was a big disappointment.
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- Matthew Lynch
- 2020-05-19
Great Book
I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook. I have been operating my own company of one for 4 years and this book let’s me know I am on the right track.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-04-22
Actuation was odd
The book is read with a lot of odd pauses. Like the sentence was going to end, but it doesn't.
Content was great. A fresh view on how to approach growth in business.
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- DTM
- 2019-09-07
Confirmed the cry of my heart
I run my own law practice. I was sick over the idea that I must grow to prosper. Hell no I won’t deal with employment law issues and being responsible for other people’s salaries at the expense of my freedom. Thanks for confirming what I had been thinking about for a while—-i dont need to grow to prosper!
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